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Re: vmware and hyper-v

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I see two possible approaches here.  Either your driver loads after Hyper-V or it loads before Hyper-V.  If it loads after Hyper-V, then you need a way to escape the container that Hyper-V has put you in.  That approach seems like a non-starter.  No hypervisor should allow virtualization escapes.

 

So that leaves you with a driver that loads before Hyper-V.  I don't know if Windows has such a thing, but you could always intercede at the boot loader if Windows doesn't provide the necessary facilities.  (I assume that disk drivers, at least, have to load before Hyper-V, but maybe that's not the case).  With this approach, you need some way of staying outside of the Hyper-V virtualization container once Hyper-V starts up.  Since Hyper-V captures the processor, the only solution that comes to mind is to virtualize the processor that Hyper-V captures, so that Hyper-V doesn't gain control of the physical CPU.  That means running the host as a nested guest.

 

Maybe I'm missing a more clever solution.  Can you go into more detail about the solution that you envision?


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